by Kenda Hanuman | Jan 25, 2016 | Climate Change, Pipelines
‘This business of driving stakes through the heart of one project after another is exhausting,’ writes McKibben. (Photo: via Earth Island Journal) When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that...
by Kenda Hanuman | Jan 22, 2016 | Climate Change, Fossil Fuels
Drill crews worked at a shale well in Berthoud, Colo., in December. Credit Nick cote for The New York Times The rules, aimed at gas and oil drilling on public lands, are intended to curb the release of methane, which contributes to global warming. Source: New...
by Bob Day | Sep 12, 2015 | Health & Safety, Natural Gas
Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a patchwork of barren earth where the men graze cattle in the high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and profane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre...
by Bob Day | Sep 7, 2015 | Politics of energy
A member of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) who was arrested inside the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission building in May and charged with illegal entry was declared not guilty last week (Aug. 20) in a bench trial before Judge John F. McCabe Jr. in D.C. Superior Court....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 2, 2015 | Fracking, Pipelines
GUEST: David Swanson, author, activist, and blogger. His books includes Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union and War is a Lie and When the World Outlawed War. Follow him on Twitter. David reflects on the news that civil rights and...
